The facility develops vaccines for common diseases, but can easily switch to producing vaccines for pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – A large-scale manufacturing facility that develops affordable vaccines in Singapore for common diseases and can easily switch to production of new vaccines for the next pandemic, was officially opened on Wednesday.
These include high-value vaccines and biologics for Singapore as well as low- and middle-income countries. “Hilleman Laboratories will be a crucial piece of the pandemic preparedness and resilience jigsaw,” said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung at the launch of Aces, which is built based on current good manufacturing practices .
The company will produce vaccines for prevalent infections such as dengue, rotavirus, cholera, as well as pneumococcal and meningococcal diseases. Apart from Hilleman Laboratories, other vaccine manufacturers that have set up shop here are American firms MSD and Thermo Fisher Scientific, French giant Sanofi and German company BioNTech.These plants will be churning out over a billion doses annually, with products ranging from traditional types, such as live-attenuated and recombinant vaccines, to the latest mRNA ones.
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